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Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph FRSL (born 12 November 1966) is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic. In 2023, he was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for his book Sonnets for Albert. more »

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Unless you build a steeple

Fifty-foot-high with electric eye

To survey your land

To survey the barbadine tree

To survey the zaboca 

To survey the lime

You woulda never see 

How in silence before dawn 

Jumbie does break cane 

An’ run through the yard


You woulda never see

How them animal does conspire

To put ghost in front your eye

You survey the land, you survey the coconut leaf

You survey the gate, you never see the mystery of life

Yes, Poopa, come Poopa

Unless you build a flagpole

Ninety-foot-high on a steel beam 

Put up camera, put up barb wire

Leggo eye above the dark

You woulda never see


You survey your land

You survey the pomcetrye tree

You survey the soursop

You survey the lime

You woulda see

How spirit does build nest 

In the old woman beard

And leave arse behind


Yes, Mister

Unless you build fowl coop

Unless you build a hotel

For crapaud and he friend

Your jaw goes burst like fire

Every time the power blow

But I beg you, Poopa

I beg you no sorrow reach

I beg no sorrow reach

And peace a'greet me

Not the backside of your hand

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